If I were a Carpenter: Reframing Debates in Media and Communication Research in Africa

Mutsvairo, Bruce

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70443-2_1

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“…Little effort is dedicated to identifying what affects the media in Africa. What constitutes a true African media is actually determined by the number of western traits it exhibitsthe more western a media appears, the more professional its journalists are considered (Mutsvairo, 2018). As Nyarko and Teer-Tomaselli (2018) asserts in the chapter of Mutsvairo"s edited book, "the idea of Africa is itself a Western construct", therefore, "Africanizing" the discourse is just another irony for Westernization (Gondwe, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

News worthiness and Public trust in sub-Sahara African: Examining the impact of tabloid journalism in Zambia

Gondwe¹

2021

J. Media Commun. Stud.

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This study set out to understand the role of tabloid news content in establishing public news trust in Zambia. The study compared tabloid news stories (usually frowned upon as unprofessional by most African journalists and scholars) to professional news writing styles, which are rooted in Western journalism education. Drawing from studies that critique tabloid journalism as consumed by people lacking critical abilities to analyze professional news content, the study predicted that: (1) the consumption of tabloid news was not positively correlated to the lack of education/ability to critically analyze 'professional' news content; (2) individuals exposed to only professional news content in form of hard news will indicate lower levels of trust for the media if compared to those exposed to tabloid news content; (3) tabloid news will serve as a moderating factor between media trust and mistrust. This theoretical model was tested with quasi-experiments and surveys using data collected from over 319 participants from online media platforms belonging to selected media outlets in Zambia. The results supported the proposed model on the role of tabloid news content and public trust. Additional analyses suggested that there was no positive correlation between the consumption of tabloid news and education; therefore, debunking the idea that critical analysis of news content in Zambia resided among the educated individuals.

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News worthiness and Public trust in sub-Sahara African: Examining the impact of tabloid journalism in Zambia

Gondwe¹

2021

J. Media Commun. Stud.

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“…The decolonial epistemic turn against engineered racial bigotry straddles all fields of study (Zeleza 1997;Ntarangwi et al 2005;Willems 2014;Mutsvairo 2018;Moyo and Mutsvairo 2018;Chasi 2018;Chasi and Rodny-Gumede 2018;Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2018). Quite often intelligentsia of African descent reclaim their humanity through validating and legitimising the knowledge systems of their own communities and people.…”

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confidence: 99%

Promoting Epistemic Vigilance Against Racist Attacks on Africans on Mediatised Permanent Education Sites

Mhiripiri¹

2021

ASR

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This paper analyses how tropes of racism against people of African descent manifest in public texts (permanent education sites) of different genres and forms. The selected permanent education sites include the mediatisation of the public and private lives of the British royal family’s Prince Harry and Meghan’s break away from royal duties, the FIFA World Cup and the English Premier League, the Chinese Museum in Hubei, and other public incidences that provoked racial controversies. These activities, controversies and exhibitions are vehicles through which racism is reproduced as part of the historical global capitalist system. This is the ubiquitous public pedagogy of permanent education. The porous but multifarious dominant sitesdiffuse diverse forms of pedagogical address to put into play a limited range of identities, ideologies, and subject positions that both reinforce neoliberal social relations and undermine the capacity for democratic politics. Critical scholarship has a normative duty to be mindful of all cultural activities and productions, their processes of signification, and implications for humanization and democracy. After conveniently selecting specific mass mediated permanent education sites, this paper theorises and historicises the colonial foundations of racism and the European construction of an imagined racial hierarchy. It then problematises China as an emergent global economic powerhouse located in this gradation, and its contemporary self- identities – both official and public – given notable allegations of incidences of Chinese racism against people of African descent. Popular sites of mediation are not studied for their own sake, but to develop a radical pan-African scholarship strategically positioned to influence public education sites for social transformation and justice. Such vigilant critical decolonial scholarship makes necessary com onse to insidious sites ocultural education.

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“…This paper seeks to offer a critique of different ideas of media freedom and media activism in Zimbabwe. Taking up the challenge to rethink the deployment of theory and methods in African media scholarship, I start by theorising what a decolonial idea of media activism in Zimbabwe today would look like (Mutsvairo, 2018;Moyo andMutsvairo, 2018, Chasi andRodny-Gumede, 2018;Chiumbu, 2016). I then make a historical case based on the competing visions of the normative expectations of Zimbabwean media performance, to illustrate what media freedom has meant in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Zimbabwean government foresaw this and wanted to pre-empt it. To appreciate how the liberal understanding of media freedom is insufficient for a postcolonial country like Zimbabwe, we need to embrace a decolonial approach (Mutsvairo, 2018;Moyo andMutsvairo, 2018, Chasi andRodny-Gumede, 2018;Chiumbu, 2016). To imagine a decolonial press freedom is to think beyond the current liberal rooted conceptions of media freedom.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

In the Service of Press Freedom or the Imperial Agenda? Negotiating Repression and Coloniality in Zimbabwean Journalism

Mlotshwa

2019

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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If I were a Carpenter: Reframing Debates in Media and Communication Research in Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

News worthiness and Public trust in sub-Sahara African: Examining the impact of tabloid journalism in Zambia

News worthiness and Public trust in sub-Sahara African: Examining the impact of tabloid journalism in Zambia

Promoting Epistemic Vigilance Against Racist Attacks on Africans on Mediatised Permanent Education Sites

In the Service of Press Freedom or the Imperial Agenda? Negotiating Repression and Coloniality in Zimbabwean Journalism

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